Dear all,
after the wonderful online edition of the last year, we are pleased to announce that the fourth Body Representation Network (BRNet) workshop is due to take place in Sion, Switzerland on Friday 9th September 2022, Campus Energypolis.
The title of the workshop is “The pathological body: the perception and experience of the body in diseases” and will host two keynote speakers: Prof. Francesca Frassinetti, neurologist and neuroscientist (University of Bologna, IT), and Prof. Silvestro Micera, Head of the Translational Neural Engineering Laboratory at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL, CH).
To promote the participation of students and of young scientists, short oral presentations and posters are planned. These contributions will be selected based on the scientific values and clinical relevance of the submitted abstracts.
To fall under the aim and scope of the present meeting, the abstract should deal with body-related topics being potentially interesting for pathological studies, even if the work does not necessarily include patients as participants. The call for abstracts will be open until the 10th of July on the website (https://bodyrepresentation.wixsite.com/brnet/brnet-abstract-submission).
Attendance at the workshop is free, but the registration is mandatory (https://bodyrepresentation.wixsite.com/brnet/brnet-abstract-submission).
Thanks to the kind support of the Swiss National Science Foundation and the HES SO International Office MOVE, there are fellowships to support travel costs: 100 CHF (about 100 euro) for each poster presenter coming from outside Switzerland, and up to 600 CHF for the speakers of the oral presentation. Moreover, The Sense Research and Innovation Center will award the 4 best contributions with a prize of 250 CHF for each selected work.
Registration, lunch and coffee breaks are free of charge for all participants.
Please feel free to share this invitation with anyone who might be interested.
We look forward to seeing you at the next edition of BRNet in Switzerland,
Michela Bassolino & Francesca Garbarini, organizers of the BRNet 2022
